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Sheila Chandra
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Sheila Chandra is a retired British pop singer of Indian descent. She is no longer able to perform, after she was rendered mute by burning mouth syndrome in 2010. Sheila Chandra was born in London and she first came to public attention as an actress, playing Sudhamani Patel in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 1979 to 1981. As a teenager she formed the band Monsoon with Steve Coe, Monsoon created a fusion of Western and Indian pop styles. The band recorded its album, Third Eye, in 1982 from which it had a surprise hit single, Ever So Lonely. Monsoon followed-up with the single Shakti, which peaked at No,41, but this was to be the bands final charting single. The album also includes a cover of the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows, resenting pressure from their record company over musical direction, Monsoon dissolved in 1982 and Coe and Smith set about promoting Chandra as a solo artist on independent Indipop Records. Chandra went on to release a number of albums in the 1980s, after a creative split with Martin Smith, Chandra released three albums on Peter Gabriels Real World label —Weaving My Ancestors Voices, The Zen Kiss, and ABoneCroneDrone. In the 1990s Chandra decided, having been a studio artist exclusively, to give concerts for the first time, Martin Smith was no longer actively involved by this time. In 1990 Chandra interrupted her sabbatical to record a single, Raining, Chandra is a respected performer on the world-music scene and remains active into the 21st century. In 2001 she released an album with the Ganges Orchestra titled This Sentence is True based on her two experimental EPs with that group. 2002 saw the release of a remix of her hit single Ever So Lonely retitled So Lonely by the band Jakatta. It charted at No.8 in the UK, in 2002 she performed a song titled Breath of Life with Howard Shore for the The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers soundtrack. In 2007, she recorded two songs for Simon Emmersons project the Imagined Village, which set out to reinterpret traditional British songs using a range of contemporary British musicians. She also appeared with the Imagined Village on a tour of Britain in 2007. She has thus been rendered effectively mute, as a result of her illness Sheila is now completely retired from music. She has turned her attention to writing books, the first of which. With Monsoon, Third Eye With the Ganges Orchestra, This Sentence is True EEP1 & EEP2 Pure Drones, I Pure Drones, Vol. II Pure Drones, Vol. Nada Brahma, DEVI in Hinduism Today, August 1991

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World music
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The term was popularized in the 1980s as a marketing category for non-Western traditional music. Globalization has facilitated the expansion of world musics audiences and scope and it has grown to include hybrid subgenres such as world fusion, global fusion, ethnic fusion, and worldbeat. To enhance the process of learning, he invited more than a dozen visiting performers from Africa and Asia, the term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry. There are several conflicting definitions for world music, one is that it consists of all the music in the world, though such a broad definition renders the term virtually meaningless. The term also is taken as a classification of music that combines Western popular music styles with one of many genres of music that are also described as folk music or ethnic music. However, world music is not exclusively traditional folk music and it may include cutting edge pop music styles as well. Succinctly, it can be described as music from out there. It is a nebulous term with an increasing number of genres that fall under the umbrella of world music to capture musical trends of combined ethnic style and texture. As a result, definitions of the genre have become particularly varied, similar terminology between distinctly different sub-categories under primary music genres, such as world, rock and pop can be as ambiguous and confusing to industry moguls as it is to consumers. In a report on the 2014 globalFEST National Public Radios Anastasia Tsioulcas said Even within the music community. Whats more, I believe that in peoples imaginations, world music means a kind of fairly awful, gloppy, hippy-ish. Its a problematic, horrible term that satisfies absolutely no one, the Breton musician Alan Stivell pioneered the connection between traditional folk music, modern rock music and world music with his 1972 album Renaissance of the Celtic Harp. At this time, Stivells contemporary, Welsh singer-songwriter Meic Stevens popularised Welsh folk music, more recently, other Welsh-language bands such as Calan and 9 Bach have achieved international acclaim. The broad category of music includes isolated forms of ethnic music from diverse geographical regions. These dissimilar strains of music are commonly categorized together by virtue of their indigenous roots. World fusion / Worldbeat / Ethnic fusion / Global fusion can also blend specific indigenous sounds with more blatant elements of Western pop. Depending on style and context, world music can sometimes share the music genre. Good examples are Tibetan bowls, Tuvan throat singing, Gregorian chant or Native American flute music, World music blended with new-age music is a sound, loosely classified as the hybrid genre, ethnic fusion

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House music
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House music is a genre of electronic music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s. Early house music was characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms mainly provided by drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals. While house displayed several characteristics similar to music, it was more electronic and minimalistic. House music became popular in Chicago clubs in 1984 and it was pioneered by figures such as Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Kym Mazelle, and Mr. Fingers, and was associated with African-American and gay subcultures. House music quickly spread to other American cities such as Detroit, New York City, Baltimore, in the mid-to-late 1980s, house music became popular in Europe as well as major cities in South America, and Australia. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop, in the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. House music has also fused with other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as euro house, tech house, electro house. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the wave of progressive house. The genre has remained popular and fused into other subgenres, for example, ghetto house, deep house. As of 2016, house music popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe. The song structure of music songs typically involves an intro, a chorus, various verse sections, a midsection. Some songs do not have a verse, taking a part from the chorus. The drum beat is one of the important elements within the genre and is almost always provided by an electronic drum machine rather than by a human drummer playing drumkit. The drum beats of house are four on the floor, with bass drums played on every beat, House music is often based on bass-heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and/or from samples of disco or funk songs. The tempo of most house songs is between 118 and 135 beats per minute, soul music and disco influenced house music. These artists produced longer, more repetitive, and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings, early house producers such as Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Rachel Cain, co-founder of an influential Trax Records, was involved in the burgeoning punk scene and cites industrial

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LinnDrum
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The LinnDrum is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics as the successor to the Linn LM-1. It was introduced in 1982 at a list price of $2,995, about 5,000 units were sold between 1982 and 1985. The Linn 9000 was the successor of the LinnDrum and its high-quality samples, flexibility and affordability made the LinnDrum popular, it sold far more units than its predecessor and its successor combined. Roger Linn re-used the moniker on the LinnDrum Midistudio and the Roger Linn Designs LinnDrum II, the LinnDrum was used on many recordings throughout the 1980s, including international hits such as a-Has Take on Me and Tears for Fears Shout. When Linn Electronics closed in 1986, Forat Electronics purchased its assets and offered service, sounds. The LinnDrum was pre MIDI, but Retrofit Kits were offered by JL Cooper, like the LM-1, it provided a sequencer for programming rhythm patterns, a built-in mixer and individual output jacks for each sound. The LinnDrum sampled sounds from 28 to a 35 kHz sample rate, also, the LinnDrum was $2,000 less than the LM-1. One drawback, on the LinnDrum only the snare, tom and conga samples can be tuned, the LinnDrum is often erroneously called the LM-2, alluding to its predecessor, the Linn LM-1. Alex Moffett, an investor in the Linn drum computer development, wasnt with the company by the time the LinnDrum came around. However, The LM-1 was the first drum machine to use samples of a drum kit. To further add to the mystery, an entry in the museum of the Roger Linn Design company credits L. A. session drummer Art Wood with most of the samples. While the Roger Linn Designs Past Products Museum page credits Art Wood for most of the LM-1 sounds, although there have not been any official virtual instrument versions of the LinnDrum, several manufacturers have either emulated its interface and/or included samples of it. com